integer
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A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number.
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Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.
It was Mr. Littlewood (I believe) who remarked that "every positive integer was one of his personal friends."
By the time I was a student in high school I was reading the classic Men of Mathematics by E. T. Bell and I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime.
an integer is a number that is not a fraction
1 and −1 divide (are divisors of) every integer.
A 1-bit field contains a "0", which distinguished this format from the integer literal format.